222. Extraordinary means
[System News:]
[You spend 59480 energy points to deconstruct the "Six-Ring Metal Wizard Purin". γ
[You have completed 50% of the deconstruction of the target]
γYou have obtained the following solution results:γ
γ1.β Purin's personalized panel information:γ
γβ¦ (omitted)γ
γ2.β Brief fragments of Purin's recent memories:]
[Memory fragment 1: "Prine's Hiring by Dikla Fagan", 50% completeness]
[Memory fragment 2: "The Passage of Purin Hiding the Companion Witch", 50% completeness]
[Memory Fragment 3: "Purin's Preparations for Plundering the Source of Reincarnation Magic of "Leno Jarvis", 50% completeness]
γβ¦ (Other memory fragments omitted)]
Li Nuo obtained more than a dozen memory fragments, covering all aspects of Purin.
Of course, the content of the "online teaching" of Purin and his professor is not presented in the solution.
Li Nuo clicked on the first memory fragment.
The memory screen shows Purin's first perspective.
After receiving the secret message from Dikla Fagan, this guy followed the instructions on the secret letter and entered the other party's island.
In this fragment of memory, Leno saw Fagan's residence.
It is a white building shrouded in magical fog all year round, made of silver-white magical metal, and there are a large number of magical patterns on the walls on the inside and outside.
Li Nuo pressed the pause button and carefully examined the magical metal wall on the screen.
Intuitively, it is very difficult to rain down thunder from the outside and kill Fagan who is in the house. Because those walls with magic patterns have a strong ability to absorb magic energy.
If Li Nuo uses 1 million lightning energy to emit lightning, at least 90% of the energy will be absorbed by the metal wall. The remaining 10% is estimated to be blocked by the family guards who guard Fagan.
Therefore, it is not a wise move to kill Fagan at Fagan's residence.
If Li Nuo wanted to attack Fagan, he would have to lure the other party out of the turtle-like dwelling.
Li Nuo pressed the play button and continued to watch the memory clip of Pullin.
The main content of the first memory is that Purin, the Demon Brain Parasite, and Fagan gathered in Fagan's study to discuss the assassination plan to attack Li Nuo.
In this plan, Purin will launch a sneak attack from the shadows after the battle between Li Nuo and the Demon Brain Parasite breaks out, and cooperate with the Demon Brain Parasite to assassinate Li Nuo.
After the successful assassination, the Demon Brain Parasite took the extraordinary characteristics of Li Nuo's body, and Purin took Li Nuo's "source of rebirth magic" for himself.
These two things were the spoils of war that Fagan paid to the two killers.
In addition, Fagan also promised to help the Demon Brain Clan and Purin clear all obstacles and hidden dangers.
First of all, Fagan will send a retainer wizard as soon as the battle is over, and disguise the death of Leno Jarvis as a bloody revenge of the Sail Pirate State.
Secondly, he will buy off the deep sea wizards near the battlefield in advance, and let the other party forge the energy fluctuation monitoring records of the magic sentry and the wizard stronghold.
The above two things will be handled by Fagan to ensure that the assassination plan is foolproof, and even if Selena comes, there will be no clues.
So, how did Fagan determine that Leno Jarvis was really dead?
Li Nuo found part of the answer to this question in his memory fragments.
One of the few deep sea wizards who Fagan had bought off was actually a retainer in the guise of Fagan's retainers.
As soon as the battle breaks out, this person will command the deep sea wizard to turn off the energy detection devices of the magic outpost and the wizard stronghold, and then go to the battlefield to supervise the battle himself.
He will ensure that Lenovo's soul has nowhere to escape and fake the scene of the battle.
Li Nuo did not find any clues about this retainer in the memory fragment, and the other party did not appear in the memory fragment. Fagan only mentioned this man when discussing the assassination plan.
But that doesn't mean Li Nuo can't get him out.
Li Nuo closed the first memory fragment and clicked on the second memory fragment while thinking about the plan for dealing with the academy traitor.
The second memory fragment relates to "The Passage of Purin Hiding the Associated Witch".
On the memory screen, Li Nuo did not see any trace of the companion witch, but a thing wrapped in a heavy metal box, which was held in Pulin's hand like a treasure and buried in the soft soil.
"What do you mean? Isn't it hiding a companion witch? How did it turn out that Purin buried the metal box in the ground? β
Li Nuo was a little confused, and watched this memory clip several times to confirm that he was not mistaken.
What Pullin buried in the earth was indeed a boxy metal box with an unpretentious dark gray appearance, complete with magic locks and mechanical locks.
Could it be that the contents of this box are Pullin's companion witches?
"Shhh
Dinas had told him more than once that she was glad she had met a contractor like Lenovo.
Not all contractors are like Li Nuo, who guards the companion witches in an equal, gentle, and caring manner.
A contractor like Li Nuo can be described as rare.
Most contractors will use the Companion Witch as a tool, in every sense of the word.
A small number of contractors will also use magic methods to conduct magical experiments on companion witches, transforming them into magical creations that are more suitable for themselves.
When Leno heard Dinas talk about these things, he felt very incomprehensible.
He just treated Dinas normally according to the good education he had received, and did not deliberately show kindness or anything like that.
How is it that this mediocre quality and performance have become a rare thing in Dinas's mouth?
It wasn't until Leno now saw the companion witch in a metal box that he realized how strange the wizard's brain circuit was in this world...
The metal wizard named Pullin most likely had brutally modified his companion witch.
Perhaps in his own eyes, this kind of magical transformation could not be more normal.
But in Li Nuo's worldview, this kind of behavior is the existence of dehumanization.
Li Nuo's heart was slightly heavy.
He thought about it for a moment.
In fact, of all the wizards he has encountered since the crossing, only a few of them have values and morals close to their own.
Mavele, Dinas, Filia, Betty, Erica, Selena, Jenara, these people have good views, and Li Nuo can accept them.
In addition to them, such as the Grimsau of the Death Society, the Jikmander and Gimat of the Soul Shaping Society, and the Nehekat of the Tomb King, etc., these guys all show more or less signs of losing their humanity.
Without the restrictions of the Unas Ring Decree and the Ministry of Magic, the Wizards' Forward Society, and other magical departments, it is difficult to imagine what this kind of wizarding force that "feeds" on the living would have done.
"Unas Ring is really a mixed country, mixed with good and bad...
"When I read Grinsau's memories, I felt that this country was a chaotic neutral, even chaotic evil camp. From my experience, this is indeed the case.
"All evil wizard forces are bound by the law, but they have found all sorts of ways to circumvent the law and achieve their evil ends. The point is, they are still in accordance with the law..."
Leno remembered the Unas Ring Decree No. 2 and Decree No. 3.
Decree No. 2 is related to various wizarding forces and is used to regulate the behavior of wizarding forces.
Decree No. 3 regulates wizarding families bound by blood ties.
These two decrees are more "concessions" than "restraints".
Take Decree No. 2 as an example, which is full of words such and such as "XXXX acts are illegal, but the wizard forces of such and such are exceptional", so much so that this decree has been dubbed the "Exception Law".
Take Pooley and his companion witches, for example.
Forcibly transforming her into a non-human creature without her consent is undoubtedly a violation of the law.
However, if the person is a companion witch, then the act is legal.
This is the exception referred to in Decree No. 2.
This is because the contract between the companion witch and the contractor states that the companion witch must unconditionally obey the contractor within the scope of "soul induction".
Cases like this "XXXX acts illegally, with the exception of so-and-so's wizard forces" can be seen everywhere in Decree No. 2.
In the final analysis, it is caused by the power of the contract and the extraordinary power between individuals, which overrides the law.
This is the strange situation where illegal acts that are not allowed by law have become legal in the hands of powerful wizards.
However, Li Nuo, as a traverser, has a scale in his heart.
For him, Unas's decree was a tool, not a guideline.
Li Nuo calmed down, read all the fragments of memory that he had deconstructed, and then flew to an island in a state of invisibility.
The island was about seventy kilometers from the site of the Brain Parasite's assassination.
The metal box that Pullin had buried was on this island.
Li Nuo followed the clues in the memory fragments and searched the island and found the exact location of the metal box.
After using deconstruction to make sure there were no traps or ambushes around, he dug through the dirt and saw a corner of the gray metal box.
A deconstruction technique was thrown, and Li Nuo spent some energy to get the panel information of the box.
"Alas... Damn, what a brute. β
Li Nuo swept his eyes and cursed angrily in his heart.
The metal wizard named Pullin had transformed his companion witch into some kind of metallic magical lifeform.
Purin erased the minds of the companion witches, enslaved the souls of the other women, and took away all the control of the rebirth magic.
Every bit of reincarnation magic on Purin's body will be transformed into an activation material for crafting magic metal by the transformed companion witch, which in turn will strengthen Purin's magic metal armor.
This kind of evil cultivation method impacted Li Nuo's three views and made him firm in his idea of getting rid of Pulin.
Even if Purin's behavior was an exception to the license granted by Act No. 2, Li Nuo intended to kill him.
What's more, the other party also plans to join forces with the Demon Brain Parasite to ambush him.
"Purin must die."
Li Nuo clenched his fists, restored the soil beneath his feet, and flew to the Deep Sea Branch wizard stronghold near the assassination site.
He wanted to determine who the deep sea wizards were bought by Fagan, and who the retainer wizard disguised as a deep sea wizard was.
In case that retainer wizard was Fagan's family guard himself, or other battle wizards with the strength of seven rings and above, then the risk that Li Nuo would have to face was a bit beyond the scope of bearing.
Li Nuo used the "Psychic Beacon" and "Psychic Vision" to observe the wizard's stronghold from afar.
It was a magical creature floating on the surface of the sea, with a metal disc base over two hundred meters wide, a translucent magical dome, and a small magical fortress.
As Leno observed it, he saw the abyss wizard on duty finish his patrol and fly into the magic dome.
Throwing deconstruction at these figures that landed on the metal base, Li Nuo found a plan related to his assassination from the memories of the other party and the others.
The results of the decomposition show that Li Nuo was too worried.
The retainer wizard hidden in the wizard's stronghold is not Fagan's family guard. It was a rock and earth wizard who was related to Fagan and had the strength of a six-ring battle wizard.
Except for this person, all the seven deep sea wizards in the wizarding stronghold were bought off by Fagan. Together, they will testify falsely about the attack on Linos by the Terrorist Pirates.
As long as Li Nuo, the main master, is dead, then what the deep sea wizard who is the defender of order on the one side says is all the truth of the matter.
"Alas, sadly, the decree of the Unas Ring has failed, and what a country of tragedy. At the end of the day, I'm going to have to use extraordinary means to clean up these disgusting evils. β
Li Nuo's face was like frost, and his eyes burst with murderous intent.
He turned away, approaching Island 102353 in stealth.
One by one, the "Psychic Beacons" were thrown, followed by the "Psychic Vision", and Leno caught the figures of the Demon Brain Parasite and Purin in the magical vision.
After briefly confirming that the two sides were still in place, he closed the "Psychic Horizon" so as not to startle the snake.
The concealment of "Mind Bombing" is excellent, and it can undoubtedly meet Li Nuo's requirement to quietly destroy the enemy.
However, in the case of a failed judgment, the damage of the "Mind Bombardment" is extremely pitiful.
In addition, every wizard wears a magic pendant that guards the mind.
In addition to reflecting psychic magic and triggering a spell backlash, this pendant also provides at least 10,000 psychic shields. The higher the quality of the pendant, the more shield strength it will have.
It is absolutely impossible for Li Nuo to use "Mind Bombardment" to kill the ten-ring wizard in seconds, but it is more than enough to use it to kill a few six-ring wizards in a short period of time.
His confidence comes from his own damage stats.
He had found time to experiment with his own magic.
The "Psychic Shield" can only be used to resist psychic damage, not psychic effects, and there is no such thing as resistance.
The strength of the shield is deducted for as much psychic damage as it takes.
The upper limit of "psychic damage" that a person can bear is defined by Li Nuo as a "psychic blood bar".
He used a bold magical experiment to test the formula.
Now, these test results, derived from magical experiments, have been manually written onto the panel by Li Nuo as part of the understanding of the composition.
β¦
Name: Brain Parasite
[Soul Health Bar] 200 points
Psychic Shield value: 16,000 points
β¦
The other two enemies of the Six-Rings combat strength are similar to the situation of the Demon Brain Parasite, both with 200 "Psychic Health Bar" and 16,000 Psychic Shield.
The "Psychic Blood Bar" is the Humanoid Wizard's own possession, and the Psychic Shield value is derived from the Psychic Protection Pendant on their body.
Li Nuo can deal 16,201 points of psychic damage at one time, and he can kill one of the three opponents in an instant.
For this to happen, he would have to significantly increase the amount of damage that Psychic Bombardment does when a decision fails.
Li Nuo called up the spell panel of "Mind Bombardment" and raised it to level 100.
[System News:]
You have consumed 41,700 energy. γ
[Level +60 for [Mind Bombardment], now level 100.] γ
[Final damage of [Mind Bombardment] +60.] γ
You triggered the entire 10 levels of additional rewards. γ
Choose six of the following three options:
[Option 1:]
[[Mind Bombardment]'s final damage +10.] γ
[Option 2:]
[Strengthens the [Psychic Infusion] trait to give it +1.] γ
[The current [Psychic Infusion] is level 3, you can increase the cast cost by 10 times, and increase the cast effect by 300.] γ
[For each level of [Psychic Charge], the cast cost is +100%, and the cast effect is +100.] γ
[Option 3:]
[Transform "Psychic Bombardment" into "Psychic Strike", from a single spell to a group spell.] The amount of damage dealt by Psychic Strike is the same as that of Psychic Blaster of the same level, but the damage is split between all targets you specify. When this option is selected, option 1 will change to +1 final damage. γ
Option 1 and Option 3 work wonders in certain environments.
In the current situation, it is right to choose "option 2" without a brain.
Li Nuo clicked "Option 2" 6 in a row, and the spell panel of "Mind Bombing" changed drastically.
Due to the many magic experiments he has done, the system has updated the damage data of "Mind Bombardment" in real time.
β¦
[Damage after activating [Psychic Charge (Level 9)]
[When Spell Judgment Fails] 529 points
[When Spell Judgment Successful] 4660 points
[When Spell Judgment is Successful] 5170 points
γCast Cost After Activating Psychic Charge (Level 9)γ
2.8 Soul Power and 28 Energy
[Number of instantaneous "Mind Bombardments" per second] 15 times
β¦
The last line of data, "15 instantaneous times per second", is the conclusion reached by Li Nuo after trial and error.
In gamified language, Mind Bombardment comes with a public cooldown of 0.067 seconds.
Li Nuo didn't quite know what the specific principle was.
He doesn't pay attention to this.
He just needs to know that the enemy's psychic damage resistance is 0%, and the second damage of "Psychic Bombardment" = 15*529=7935 points.
Li Nuo dragged the panel information of the three of Pulin and quickly calculated the number of casts and the cost of casting his spells.
The moment the calculation results appeared in his mind, Li Nuo's eyes were slightly condensed, and he did not hesitate to throw a "mind bombardment" towards the demon brain parasite in his magical vision!
In the cave on Island No. 102353, the Demon Brain Parasite looked stupid one second, and the next second his blood was swollen and his flesh was wriggling.
His eyes were instantly bloodshot, and the tiny blood vessels in his eyes exploded one after another, blooming into tiny blood-colored flowers.
Before he could figure out where the enemy was, the endless stabbing pain in his brain made him lose all consciousness, and then...
"Poof~~~"
The skull exploded, and red and white objects splashed on the dirt walls, and mixed sludge dripped to the ground.
The headless corpse slowly fell to the ground against the wall.
A slender strip of dark gray mucus drooped from the section of the wound and weathered in half a second, becoming a gray sand spilled on the ground.
"Good, the first target has been killed, and the magic brain in his body has also been killed." Li Nuo sneered in his heart.
He set aside the passive solution results and didn't look at them for a moment, instead reversing the direction of his magical vision and looking around the island.
A magical sentry that patrols between the archipelagos and can detect energy fluctuations over a large area.
The psychic bombardment just now, which was not too intense, occurred a few meters underground, and the probability of the magic sentry detecting it was almost zero.
In addition, due to the fact that the deep sea wizards in the wizarding stronghold were bought off by Fagan, the magic outposts in this area are far away from the assassination site.
Under the cross-action of the two factors, Li Nuo's act of killing the demon brain parasite in seconds is impossible to be discovered by the magic sentry.
In the same way, the energy fluctuations of Prime-killing Purin will not be detected by the magic sentry.
Not only that, in the memory fragment called "Preparation", in order to ensure that he would never be discovered by Li Nuo, Pulin used metal magic to arrange a magic circle around him in advance to suppress the spread of energy fluctuations.
This circle can perfectly mask the energy fluctuations of the illusion, making Purin look like a real tree, and it has become a powerful weapon to hide the energy fluctuations of "Mind Bombardment".
"If I were an ordinary law enforcement wizard, I wouldn't have been able to spot you, Pullin. But unfortunately, I'm a hanger. β
Li Nuo locked on to Pulin with a cold gaze, and without hesitation, he threw out 37 rounds of "Mind Bombardment" in one go.
In the magical field of vision, the illusion trees disguised by Prin shook violently.
The illusion was forced to be lifted.
Prine's body, covered in magical metal, was exposed at this moment.
He had a metal skull in the shape of a cone, covered in an airtight gray metal shell, and wrapped only in a piece of cloth that used as pants.
"Poof~~~"
The metal skull exploded as it twitched violently, and a few pieces of flesh and metal shards scattered in all directions.
After about a second or two, Prin fell to the ground and died without any suspense.
Li Nuo glanced at the system message and determined that Princher was completely dead, and there was no possibility of being resurrected by the reborn witch.
He was about to clean up the corpses of the Brain Parasite and Pullin, but he saw a small puddle of hazy gray matter on Pullin's body.
"What is this? Could it be the "source of rebirth magic"? β
Through his magical vision, Leno threw a deconstruction technique at the translucent gray mass.
[System News:]
[You're about to use deconstruction on "Reincarnation Magical Fountain: Cruel Metal.] γ
[Based on your soul contract with Dinas, the cost of this deconstruction has been reduced.] γ
[Estimated consumption of 57,000 energy points, which can increase the completion of deconstruction to 100%]
"It's really a 'source of rebirth magic'... This thing should only be visible to reborn witches and contractors. β
Li Nuo thought for a few seconds, then put aside the corpse of the Demon Brain Parasite in the cave, and first went to deal with the corpse of Purin who was exposed to the sun.
He was now 30 kilometers away from Island 102353, and it would take a little time to fly to Prinn.
When he killed Purin and the Brain Parasite just now, he got two energy points to make up for the expenses.
Taking advantage of the gap between flights, Li Nuo observed the situation of the wizard's stronghold while launching a deconstruction spell on the gray matter on Purin's body.
(End of chapter)